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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Vonnegut drawn to the text?
(a) Vonnegut does would like to know the meaning of the Requiem, but does not understand Latin.
(b) The English translation, to Vonnegut, is beautiful, and a work of genius.
(c) It is an English translation that, to Vonnegut, speaks of sadism and masochism.
(d) The composer has made several grammatical mistakes in the English text.

2. Why did Jane Cox's relatives question her marriage to Vonnegut?
(a) They do not trust Vonnegut.
(b) They think she is too young to marry.
(c) They think she is not healthy enough to marry.
(d) They worry about her getting mixed up with Germans.

3. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Depression.
(c) Civil war.
(d) Sexism.

4. For what does the traditional requiem ask?
(a) Eternal rest for the dead, where God's light perpetually shines on them.
(b) A heaven filled with angels playing harps.
(c) Entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven by Saint Peter.
(d) Sinners to be damned to Hell for all eternity.

5. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?
(a) The day he is first married.
(b) O'Hare's death.
(c) the day of his mother's suicide.
(d) His sister's birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Jill attends private school and vacations with the rich as a child, how does she provide for herself as a grown woman?

2. This book is the sequel to what other book?

3. How does Vonnegut believe a writer's opinion about vocal third parties differs from that of a visual artist?

4. What do Jane and Vonnegut have in common?

5. Why can Vonnegut not get married at an Episcopalian church?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Father's reaction to praise for his artwork different from his daughter's?

2. How are the Reverend and the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography different?

3. Although Jill Krementz attends private schools and vacations with the rich as a child, how does she support herself as an adult?

4. What are four things Vonnegut and O'Hare have in common?

5. Why does Vonnegut write his own mass?

6. What are two characteristics of Jackson Pollock's work?

7. Name one similarity and one difference between Jane and Vonnegut.

8. What is Vonnegut's opinion of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters? Support your answer.

9. How are the Reverend and the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography the same?

10. What is Vonnegut's opinion of the traditional requiem mass?

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